'Bring out your dead!"
The Minnesota Canvassing Board has decided that ballots in Minneapolis which have mysteriously disappeared will nevertheless be counted- on the basis of the original tally.
It has also ruled that absentee ballots which were wrongly excluded from the original count be systematically sorted and counted. However, the Board narrowly turned back an attempt by Democratic members to get it to rule in advance that ballots which local (read: Democratic) election officials decide were wrongly excluded automatically be counted in the official canvass without examining the state board verifying the propriety of their decisions.
Prediction: the recount will continue until Frankin, somehow, wins- or until somebody with both authority and integrity steps in to see that the result is the one the people of Minnesota voted for, not one produced after the fact by the manipulation of ballots. Hopefully the Canvassing Board will be up to the task; its refusal to give the Democrats carte blanche with regard to those absentee ballots is a good sign.
HT: Real Clear Politics
It has also ruled that absentee ballots which were wrongly excluded from the original count be systematically sorted and counted. However, the Board narrowly turned back an attempt by Democratic members to get it to rule in advance that ballots which local (read: Democratic) election officials decide were wrongly excluded automatically be counted in the official canvass without examining the state board verifying the propriety of their decisions.
Prediction: the recount will continue until Frankin, somehow, wins- or until somebody with both authority and integrity steps in to see that the result is the one the people of Minnesota voted for, not one produced after the fact by the manipulation of ballots. Hopefully the Canvassing Board will be up to the task; its refusal to give the Democrats carte blanche with regard to those absentee ballots is a good sign.
HT: Real Clear Politics
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